Blake Hazard

Little Situation

Blake Hazard is a singer/songwriter and one half of the indie-pop band The Submarines. She lives in Los Angeles.

So many of us are shocked and appalled that a man like Trump could ever become a candidate for the presidency, let alone come this close to winning. I had a hard time feeling like the man even deserved to have songs written about him — and I didn’t want to write a negative song that just picked up on the hatefulness that he’s brought out. So I decided to write an anti-hate song, centering on Michelle Obama’s beautiful phrase “When they go low, we go high.” I called it “ Little Situation” in tribute to the man’s small-minded and backwards ideas — the things that make up this nasty little situation we’ll hopefully soon see our way out of.

Lyrics

I’ll always choose love, it’s the only thing I can believe in
But he makes it hard to love him when he’s always hating
I don’t like to put a brother down to try to make the others look up to me
Yeah I don’t need to put a sister down to make me feel worthy
So when he goes low, we’ll go high, try to find some kind of understanding
All those spiteful words and taunting are the lines of a lesser man
We’ll choose love, it’s the only thing we can believe
But he makes it so hard to love him when he’s always hating
He’ll never say he’s sorry, never really care how the little guy felt
Now our greatest fear is of a man who feeds on fear itself
His fear’s just not being adored, not getting more than what he deserves
He’d step on over anyone, I can’t admire that kind of nerve
I’m still in love with America
How are we not enough, he’s gotta make us great again?
I’m not going back to those times
When so many of us were left behind
Building a wall won’t fix what’s inside
We’ll fight to keep our open minds
And choose love, it’s only thing we can believe in
He makes it impossible to love him when he’s always hating
We’ll choose love!